Customize iPhone Lock Screen & Add Live Widgets To It With LockHTML2

Widgets are certainly gaining popularity among iOS users. The Cydia store has a nice collection of interesting widgets for the Notification Center and SpringBoard. If you are a fan of making the lock screen more useful, there are tweaks like Dashboard X and LockHTML. Both of these tweaks have their shortcomings though; Dashboard X is a bit too complicated if you just want a simple widget on your iPhone’s lock screen, while LockHTML makes users do a lot of work in order to get the widgets configured properly. Fortunatel, the developer behind LockHTML has revamped the tweak, adding support for iOS 6 in the process. With LockHTML2, the wallpaper can be kept active in the widget’s background without having to go through a lot of hassle. The list of its customization options has lengthened considerably as well, making the tweak a lock screen customizer as well as a platform for widgets. Read More

Reeddit Is A Responsive Reddit Web App For Desktop & Mobile Browsers

Dubbed 'The front page of the Internet', Reddit is possibly one of the most popular websites for shared content you will find, but it lacks official desktop clients for all major desktop platforms and mobile websites. It may even seem astounding why there aren't any official apps for the website, as pretty much every borderline-famous web service has rolled out its apps for major platforms by now. Though there is always the developer community that we can rely on to fill the gap. Reeddit is an HTML5-based web app that can serve as excellent Reddit client for multiple platforms. In addition to being based on HTML5, the app also has a responsive design meaning you can use it on any tablet or smartphone with a modern HTML5-supporting web browser. Reeddit does not support Reddit accounts and you will therefore be unable to reply to comments and vote content up or down. Reeddit is essentially a Reddit reader and the interface is designed as such. Read More

View Table Of Contents For HTML Elements On A Website In Chrome

Sophisticated web development programs help write code easily than if you were to do it without them. Not only do they speed work up and help avoid common syntax problems, they’re also a great tool for beginners who might feel overwhelmed with the amount of effort needed to write a simple HTML page. If nothing else, they can help you learn code. The only shortcoming you might experience with a web development program, particularly when you’re using it to learn to code, is how they aren’t equipped to analyze websites in your browser. If your particular area of interest is HTML, then HTML5 Outliner is a great Chrome extension that will help you analyze different HTML elements on a webpage. The extension adds a square icon to the URL bar that, when clicked, opens a table of contents view of all HTML 5 headings and sections. The extension also works for HTML 4 elements. Read More

Convert Videos Into HTML5 Formats, Upload To FTP With Easy HTML5 Video

In addition to whole lot of new and easy ways to embed web elements, HTML5 brings the convenience of inserting videos directly into websites which comply with latest web standards. The HTML5 video can be easily streamed without requiring extra plug-in for any popular web browser, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. If you are working on HTML5 based websites, you may need a tool to convert videos/animations into HTML5 format without having to follow any complex procedures, so they can be easily embedded into your website. Easy HTML5 Video, as name hints, developed to convert videos into HTML5 supported WebM, MP4, and OGG formats. The application generates an index page after conversion process ends to let users view embedded video. Moreover, it can directly upload the video to FTP server or to any local and remote location. Read More

Create Web Animation And Interaction Designs In HTML 5 With Adobe Edge

The latest web standards, HTML5 and CSS3 in conjunction with JavaScript have truly reduced the time and effort involved in creating graphic, text, and animation rich web sites. Using the powers of HTML5,  you no longer have to manually write code for embedding multimedia content while CSS3 makes your web UI elements more flexible, robust, and importantly more easy to handle. If you’ve been looking for a web designing tool that allows you to take maximum benefit out of latest web standards without compelling you to manually enter code for each UI element, the freshly launched Adobe Edge is probably just what you need. Read More

Create And Edit HTML 5 Websites In Mac With BlueGriffon Web Editor

If you’re looking for an advanced WYSIWYG HTML 5 web editor for Mac, chances of you coming across paid HTML and CSS elements editors are high. Instead of relying on multiple small tools to insert and edit the latest HTML web elements, you could use BlueGriffon for Mac. Back in January, we featured a review on BlueGrfiffon for Windows, and today we will look into features of its Mac counterpart. Read More

Pros And Cons Of Using The New Firefox 4, Chrome 11, IE9 And Opera 11

The recent browser wars between internet titans like Microsoft, Google and Mozilla has left users out in the cold. While these giant companies compete to upgrade their browsers to meet the latest technology requirements, they seem to be leaving their end users in a mess with lots of browser compatibility problems. If the Firefox 4 beta was not frustrating enough, the so called stable version has its own set of issues. Likewise, despite the fact that Internet Explorer 9 has received more than 10 million downloads, yet it requires being fast tracked to meet the user habits changed by Firefox and Chrome extensions. Even the light weight Opera seems to be following the Beta disaster of Firefox 4 by alienating its market niche of legacy hardware users. In this post, we will take a look at the pros and cons of using these browsers and provide you with a comparison of the advantages and possible issues you may face by using them. Read More

Enable Or Disable HTML5 In Firefox With HTML5 Toggle

HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), which is the core markup language of the World Wide Web. However, HTML5 support is still in its initial stage and therefore, some websites do not work as expected when HTML5 support is enabled on a browser. A very common example are the frequent issues that users are facing with Hotmail due to Firefox HTML 5 support. HTML5 Toggle is a Firefox extension that provides an option in Firefox 4 to enable or disable HTML5 support. Read More

Embed HTML5 And CSS3 Elements Directly With BlueGriffon WYSIWYG Editor

Since web standards are evolving continuously with new formats and languages, web development IDEs must have an ability to conform with these latest standards in terms of new language & syntax support, newly applied constraints, and all the newly created formats and web elements. BlueGriffon is a simple WYSIWYG editor which covers the aspects of latest web standards, including HTML5 and CSS3. The application is powered by open source rendering engine of latest Firefox 4 – Gecko, enabling users to deal with web application API and XUL-based interfaces in a better way. It offers a neat interface to let both novice and professional web developers build and manage web content with all the latest web standards-specific tools and features without much effort involved. Take HTML5 for an instance, which supports direct video embedding. With BlueGriffon, you wont need to get a hang of syntaxes to begin with, it allows you to directly embed both HTML5 elements video and audio. Read More

HTML 5 Validator Checks For HTML5 Errors On Any Webpage In Firefox

HTML5 is the next generation of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which is used for the structuring and presentation of content produced on the World Wide Web. HTML 5 Validator is a Firefox extension that allows checking the HTML5 structure (via right click context menu) of any webpage(s) and provides with an overview of any possible errors in the validation process. It functions much like the widely used Firebug extension which is used to debug CSS, HTML, and JavaScript issues. Read More

Enable HTML 5 Video Tag In Internet Explorer

The latest version of both Firefox and Chrome now support HTML 5 video tags, Microsoft however is reluctant to move to HTML 5. IE user Chistian Adam has released the latest version of Xiph.org Ogg Codecs that adds basic HTML 5 video tag support to Internet Explorer. Read More